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  • Israeli court defers decision on demolition of West Bank Bedouin village

    Date: 2018-07-12 21:17:50 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:108 - ID:7486174

    GAZA CITY, July 12 (MENA) - The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday deferred by at least a month the government-planned demolition of a Bedouin village in the West Bank that had stirred Palestinian outrage and international concerns, Israeli Yedioth ....

  • Israeli court to impound Gaza flotilla ships to benefit terror victims

    Date: 2018-07-12 20:24:12 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:105 - ID:7486150

    GAZA CITY, July 12 (MENA) - An Israeli court issued a temporary confiscation order for two Norwegian ships set to partake in a solidarity flotilla to Gaza in the coming weeks, Ynet reported. The court order allows for the Karstein and Freedom, ....

  • Lieberman calls to shut down Israeli Embassy in Ireland over boycott bill

    Date: 2018-07-12 15:50:38 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7485645

    GAZA CITY, July 12 (MENA) - Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Thursday for Israel to shut down the Israeli Embassy in Dublin in response to the Irish Senate voting overwhelmingly to approve a proposal to boycott companies and ....

  • Palestinians hail Irish Senate voting on bill banning trade with Israeli settlements

    Date: 2018-07-12 13:50:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7485163

    RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - The Palestinian national reconciliation government spokesman, Youssef al Mahmoud, hailed the Irish Senate voting in favor of a bill banning the importation of products from Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, paving ....

  • Israel targets Palestinian citizens in northern Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-07-12 13:03:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7485283

    GAZA CITY, July 12 (MENA) - An Israeli plane fired one rocket at a group of Palestinian youths in northern Gaza Strip with no casualties reported. Eyewitnesses said the youths, believed to be kites and balloons' launchers, managed to flee without ....

  • 170 Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under Israeli protection

    Date: 2018-07-12 11:58:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7485166

    RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers and students broke into Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab al Maghreba gate under tight protection provided by Israeli police. Sources in Al Quds said that 95 Jewish settlers and 75 students ....

  • Israeli settlers storm religious sites in Awarta village

    Date: 2018-07-12 10:10:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7484753

    RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Thursday barged into religious sites in Awarta village, some 8 kilometers southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian security sources said that the settlers were ....

  • Israel hits Syrian posts after drone breached its airspace

    Date: 2018-07-12 10:09:34 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7484751

    RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Israel announced that it targeted Syrian military positions early on Thursday after an unmanned drone entered its airspace from the neighboring country the previous day. The Israeli military said it struck three Syrian ....

  • Qatar funding pro-Israel organizations

    Date: 2018-07-12 10:06:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7484763

    RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Qatar has donated $250,000 to some of the most extreme pro-Israel organizations in the US, a report by the Electronic Intifada has revealed. The sums are believed to have been transferred by Joseph Allaham, a lobbyist ....

  • Palestinian president in Moscow Friday

    Date: 2018-07-12 08:02:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:7484735

    RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Moscow on Friday for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the latest developments in the Middle East, especially in the Palestinian territories. In ....

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